Posted on 09/18/2019 3:44:29 AM PDT by gattaca
The U.S. government spends millions of dollars to train bomb-sniffing dogs essential to federal and local law enforcement capabilities but some are gifted to foreign countries that abuse them, often resulting in the spread of infection and premature death. Many of the American-trained canines are severely underweight, live in squalid conditions and suffer from untreated tick-borne disease because U.S. officials don’t fulfill their duty of assuring the dogs receive proper care. In one disturbing case, a two-year-old Belgian Malinois died of hyperthermia while working at the Syrian border. Another was found emaciated in a Jordanian kennel covered in feces and an empty water bowl.
It is a heartbreaking story involving the taxpayer-funded Explosive Detection Canine Program (EDCP), which also provides specially trained dogs to foreign nations—mostly Arabic—under an antiterrorism assistance project operated by the State Department. The goal is to enhance the ability of their law enforcement agencies to deter and counter terrorism. The State Department doesn’t bother following up to assure that the recipient nations are keeping their end of the agreement to adequately care for the precious animals. The sordid details resulting from the government’s negligence are only public because the State Department Inspector General received an anonymous complain on its hotline. The watchdog launched an investigation and published the findings in a lengthy report that includes agonizing pictures of the victims in the custody of their foreign handlers. “The Department has expended millions of dollars in antiterrorism assistance funds for the EDCP, but it does not ensure the health and welfare of the dogs after deployment,” the audit states. “This threatens the dogs’ ability to properly perform detection work and also creates risks to their well-being.”
There are currently 170 Explosive Detection Canines (EDCs) working in 13 partner nations under the antiterrorism program. All of the bomb-sniffing dogs were trained by the U.S. government, most of them at a facility in Winchester, Virginia known as the Canine Validation Center (CVC) managed by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security Office of Overseas Protective Operations (DS/OPO). Others were trained at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) National Canine Division (NCD). The ATF spends an average of $26,000 to train a canine in traditional explosives detection. Besides the cost of training the dogs, the State Department also spends an additional $500,000 annually to provide recipient countries with “mentors” who have expertise working with dogs.
Most of the bomb-sniffing dogs are in Jordan, the audit’s primary focus. Others are in Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia and Bahrain. Once a country is approved to receive a trained canine, the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (DS/ATA) is supposed to perform a “country canine assessment” to determine the partner nation’s abilities to operate the program. Jordan is by far the largest recipient of American-trained EDC’s, according to the report, with 61 active CVC-trained canines. Jordanian officials have also participated in six American-funded training courses. The problem is that the State Department doesn’t have mechanisms in place to ensure effective management of the health and welfare of the canines in the EDC program, investigators found. “Aside from the humanitarian need to treat these animals properly, basic standards of health and welfare are critical to ensuring that EDCs can perform these important functions,” the report states. “However, the Department does not sufficiently monitor the EDCs it provides, and, despite repeated requests by OIG in the course of its fieldwork, the Department did not produce any written policies, procedures, or written standards of care until after a draft of the report was provided.”
As a result, several dogs have died prematurely, many suffer from serious diseases, live in unsanitary kennels and are overworked or malnourished. In their report investigators “documented disturbing conditions in the canine unit in Jordan.” Specifically, CVC staff found a facility at police headquarters to be below standard. “The kennels are not properly maintained to inhibit the spread [of] K9 diseases,” the report says. “Parvo is rampant within the facility and the main cause for the canine deaths to date. The Police are losing canines frequently to the disease and do not have the medical care required to treat it, or even maintain healthy canines. The training observed was well below the needed methods to maintain a minimal standard.” At another Jordanian facility the dogs were severely overworked and required to search large numbers of vehicles without proper shelter, sanitation and care. Several dogs died from heat exhaustion in a year.
Muslims hate dogs.
Wogs hate dogs.
Then quit giving them to them.
Traditionally, all Semites hate dogs. The Bible isn’t dog friendly either, with the notable exception of the book of Tobit.
Suffering dogs and wasted taxpayer dollars to the wealthiest nation... we need to stop this. Jimmy Carters ME mess has been too costly and too lengthy.
The Bible isn’t dog friendly either, with the notable exception of the book of Tobit.
It would then seem to follow that loving dogs as part of western culture, along with respect for the Mother of God, and showing respect for a broader swath of non-Apostolic writings than the Rabbis initially settled on, may be attributed to the Roman Catholic Church and is to be avoided and condemned.
Discuss
(For those of you not familiar with the sort of Charity commonly displayed on the religion forum, enjoy the treat. Unfortunately, I have work to do oday and so am not here to do anything more than throw a bomb.)
To Muslims, dogs are like rats, but worse. If they want to continue this program, they need to find an alternative bomb-detection animal. Maybe cats.
Pigs would be my preference. They might cause people who are locked and loaded to not pull the trigger, as it were.
While mankind was given dominion over the earth it was not for the purpose of abusing it, but rather nurturing it and caring for it.
We are stewards of God’s creation and to take care of it in a way that would honor God.
Properly caring for animals falls into that category. they are not to be abused, but neither are they little human beings. They are animals, no matter how sentimentally attached a person is to them and need to be treated according to THEIR needs, not the owner’s.
They are animals, no matter how sentimentally attached a person is to them and need to be treated according to THEIR needs, not the owner’s.
Who was the overpaid moron that thought it would be ok to put highly trained dogs in the care of muzzards? Why deal with them at all? Now that we don’t need their oil, why bend over backwards to get along? Leave them to their own. Get them out of here.
The Bible isn’t friendly tondigs, if the plan is to eat them.
When will the State Department dumbasses that allowed this to happen heads roll?
SA is filthy rich. We don’t need to send them a dime in aid.
Savages, the lot of them.
L
Train bomb-sniffing Arabs instead
The Jewish Bible is emphatic that animal cruelty is not permitted. It is even part of the seven Noahide laws, which are applicable to people who are not Jewish. The Arab world, on the other hand, has had a disdain for dogs for thousands of years, made worse by the Koran.
Disgraceful. American service dogs receive a rank, and should also receive a commensurate level of care for their species. They may not need life insurance and a will, but they deserve protective equipment, proper medical care and adequate nourishment.
Well played!
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